Feasibility and Acceptability of Brief, Telehealth Cognitive Compensatory Training for Pediatric Cancer Patients

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pediatric Cancer

Treatments: Other: Cognitive Compensatory Training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05704790

UMCC 2022.068

HUM00218780 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This pilot study will be a prospective, single arm study to investigate the feasibility and acceptability of a brief, telehealth, cognitive compensatory training intervention for children with a history of pediatric cancer at the University of Michigan. Study aims to enroll 10 children with a history of treatment for pediatric cancer, along with their caregiver.

Enrollment: 26 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8 to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patient between the ages of 8 and 18
• Patient has a history of pediatric cancer
• Patient is at least 6 months posttreatment completion
• Patient and caregiver are fluent in English, as intervention materials are only available in English at this time.
• Patient demonstrates deficits in attention and/or executive functioning as evidenced by either (a) performance below one standard deviation on at least one cognitive measure of attention or executive functioning, such as on the Conners Continuous Performance Test (CPT-3), Trail making Test A & B, Children's Category Test (CCT), and Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) and/or (b) executive functioning and attention problems are identified during screening with the research assistant.

Exclusion criteria

• Patient has a history of treatment for a pediatric brain tumor
• Patient has a history of traumatic brain injury or seizures
• Patient has a history of a developmental disorder (i.e., autism, intellectual disability), behavioral disorder (i.e., oppositional defiant disorder, conduct disorder), or mood disorder (i.e., disruptive mood dysregulation disorder) that would negatively interfere with patient's participation in the intervention.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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26 participants in 1 patient group

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention will include 5 weekly sessions (60-90 minutes each) of cognitive compensatory training (CCT) delivered virtually by a pediatric neuropsychologist.

Treatment:

Other: Cognitive Compensatory Training